Boiled Water: The Simple "Foundation of Life"
As a fundamental substance for sustaining life, water plays a vital role in maintaining health.
Drinking boiled water regularly offers numerous health benefits.
Maintaining Condition
Boiled water plays a vital role in maintaining water balance and ensuring the normal functioning of body cells. It is a key player in physiological processes such as temperature regulation, nutrient transport, and waste elimination.
Boosting Metabolism
The metabolism and biochemical processes of various organs in the body rely on water. Adequate water intake is essential for maintaining normal metabolism.
Protecting the Heart
Studies have shown that daily hydration can reduce the risk of heart failure and slow the decline of heart function.
Preventing Constipation
Most people with constipation are not drinking enough water. Because stool spends too long in the intestines, its water content is absorbed by the intestines, making it difficult to pass stool. Drinking plenty of water can effectively prevent constipation.
Preventing Stone
Many cases of urinary stones are linked to insufficient water intake. Therefore, maintaining healthy water habits can effectively prevent stones. Drinking plenty of water and urinating frequently flushes the urinary tract, helping to prevent stone formation and promote stone excretion.
Preventing Gout
Drinking water is crucial for preventing gout. Purines in the human body are highly soluble in water. Drinking plenty of water can promote the excretion of uric acid, preventing the formation of uric acid kidney stones and slowing progressive kidney damage.
Tea: A Millennium-Old "Health Drink"
Tea is rich in polyphenols, beneficial to the human body, and excels in the health sector.
So, what are the benefits of long-term tea drinking for maintaining good health?
Preventing the "Three Highs"
Research indicates that the tea polyphenols and catechins in tea have numerous benefits, including antioxidants, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, improving insulin resistance, lowering blood lipid levels, and reducing body fat formation.
Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
Drinking tea can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Studies have shown that long-term tea consumption can slow the decline in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (good cholesterol) levels, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease by approximately 8%.
Protecting the Brain
A study found that long-term tea drinking can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 16% compared to non-tea drinkers.
Choosing water or tea: It depends on the person, not the amount.
Scientists recommend that adult women with low physical activity levels drink at least 1500 ml (about 7.5 cups) of water daily, and adult men at least 1700 ml (about 8.5 cups).
Special groups should control their water intake. Patients taking medication for gastric ulcers, chronic kidney disease, uremia, and heart failure should follow their doctor's instructions for water intake.
Let's talk about tea. Tea isn't for everyone, and it can't be drunk at any time. There are four important "don'ts" when drinking tea.
People who are not suitable for tea should avoid it, such as those with neurasthenia, insomnia, hyperthyroidism, tuberculosis, heart disease, stomach problems, and intestinal ulcers.
Do not drink tea in the morning or before bed, or before or after meals.
Do not drink while taking medication.
Do not drink tea that is too strong.
